The program's expansion is being funded by money Orange County received through national legal settlements with opioid ...

In the face of an opioid overdose crisis, President Biden oversaw a historic shift toward harm reduction for addiction.

North Carolina will get a cut of a nationwide opioid settlement. Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners agreed to more than $7 billion. It is tied to claims that OxyContin caused a widespread ...

A new study published in Addiction has found that opioid smoking appears to be associated with lower mortality risk compared ...

As opioid pain medications continue being prescribed for chronic and severe pain, understanding their risks becomes ...

Clinicians and policymakers need a more accurate estimate of the prevalence of problematic opioid use, authors say.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium launched an evidence-based opioid treatment program at the Recovery In ...

The $58.6 million initiative will support people with opioid use disorder who are unhoused. It's OSAC's largest investment so ...

A bipartisan coalition of states has reached a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with members of the Sackler family and their former company Purdue Pharma over their role in the opioid crisis.

Programs partly funded by the flow of opioid settlement cash are beginning to turn the tide, experts and preliminary data ...

Although, preclinical data suggest that the behavioral expression of opioid use is similar between male and female rodents, we do not have conclusive results on sex differences on craving and relapse ...

ALTON According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, abundant evidence shows that medications such as methadone, ...